Mardi Gras is here! Yesterday was a very big day for all of us. We started the day with a good night sleep (Chance only woke up at 3am and 7:30am). Then, we met a friend for Lunch at 1pm to talk about a stay-at-home job for me entering items on his website. We walked directly from the restaurant to the car and we all three started driving to Baton Rouge. It is about an hour and a half drive, not too long. Chance was wonderful, I think he slept the whole way. We went to the Baton Rouge Airport to pick up a rental car for Scott, he left today on a week long tour of some of the stations that BitCentral installed last year. He is doing follow-ups with these stations, mostly for customer service purposes, he will be in Georgia and North Carolina then back home. Chance and I stopped at a gas station before heading back home. I changed and fed him then filled the car with gas and grabbed a drink for myself and then we were off. Scott in his rental car and Chance and I in our car back toward New Orleans. Chance, played a little in the back seat before falling asleep again. The first Mardi Gras parade rolled last night through the Quarter just half a block from our house. It started at 7pm, we arrived back home at 6pm and had a Hell of a time finding parking (in hindsight we should have started for Baton Rouge earlier). Finally we did find parking however and made the long walk to the apartment. I changed and fed Chance again, we met up with Dan and we were off again. With Chance in the sling we walked down to the coffee shop to watch the parade. We met up with some of Dan's friends and had a drink. This parade is the best parade of the season. It is called Krew Du Veiux and is the only traditional Mardi Gras parade still rolling. All the floats are pulled by man power or horses no motors allowed. They threw beads and cup and stickers and all different things of course but we didn't really try for anything we were just enjoying being out with friends and showing Chance his first Mardi Gras parade. He didn't participate much, mostly he just slept but next year I think he will like it and the years after that he will probably really enjoy the parades. He was very good though, there were bands going by and people yelling and clapping and we were right in the middle of it, they don't rope anything off for this parade so you can literally walk right with the people in the parade, we were very close to all the noise and Chance never flinched. After the parade we came back home, I fed him and played with him a little and off to sleep he went and didn't wake up till 3:30am. He is such a good baby.